Turning a band insulator into an exotic superconductor

Xiangang Wan () and Sergey Y. Savrasov
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Xiangang Wan: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Sergey Y. Savrasov: University of California

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Understanding exotic, non-s-wave-like states of Cooper pairs is important and may lead to new superconductors with higher critical temperatures and novel properties. Their existence is known to be possible but has always been thought to be associated with non-traditional mechanisms of superconductivity where electronic correlations play an important role. Here we use a first principles linear response calculation to show that in doped Bi2Se3 an unconventional p-wave-like state can be favoured via a conventional phonon-mediated mechanism, as driven by an unusual, almost singular behaviour of the electron–phonon interaction at long wavelengths. This may provide a new platform for our understanding of superconductivity phenomena in doped band insulators.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5144

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